No time for recreational cycling so making the most of my commute...
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amba season!
Got first lot yesterday, now my whole house and car are awash with the fragrance of mangoes.
Got first lot yesterday, now my whole house and car are awash with the fragrance of mangoes.
In the big picture, however, the carbon cost of cycling vs driving per mile is about 400g/mile or 250g/km. Last week, a few important people hosted a wedding in Venice and racked up an estimated 5000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent, which is about 20e6 km of driving (about 2000 years' worth of my driving), so perhaps it really doesn't matter if I drive or cycle or walk or take the bus...
The catch, of course, is that clocking that distance on weekend rides, brevets, or gran fondos does not count because it does not displace car miles -- except perhaps if it leaves your legs too sore to drive. The 430 miles should come from commuting to work, shopping, and other trips previously taken by car.
Today I learned about the rule of 430.
Basically, according to [Trek](https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/the-rule-of-430/), riding your bike for 430 miles (about 700km) will offset the carbon emissions of manufacturing the bike.
The 430mi/700km estimate is based on Trek's own bikes and manufacturing processes, but the figure should be in the same order of magnitude for most other bikes, probably lower than other less `fancy' bicycles.
Does anyone know of a good open-source, offline or self-hostable cycling tracker? I have GPX files for almost all rides.
Here's what I am thinking. An offline/one-time preprocessor computes distance, time, average speed, elevation etc etc and converts it all into static webpages. One for each route/ride, one for a summary/totals page. Dump the generated HTML into a webserver if I want to make it public.
Maybe a crude way to say offline strava.
Any ideas?
@sree Misread that as yam and wondered what you are up to...
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